Ss88 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



2}/^-5 inches long, light orange-brown; scales obovate, with entire margin. 

 Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California. — First 

 introduced into cultivation in 1893. Hardy in sheltered positions as far north 

 as Massachusetts; it does not seem to take kindly to cultivation and only a 

 few rather small trees are known to exist in Europe and in the eastern States. 

 In its native habitat it is a handsome tree remarkable for its pendulous whip- 

 like branches. 



32. P. spiniilosa, Henry (P. morindoides , Rehd.). Tree to 150 feet tall, 

 with spreading branches and slender pendulous branchlets; branchlets gla- 

 brous, yellowish-gray; winter-buds ovoid, obtuse, scarcely resinous: leaves 

 imperfectly radially arranged, slightly compressed, slender, straight or 

 slightly curved, acute and pungent, Y^-^Yl inches long, with 2 glaucous bands 

 above, green beneath, keeled on both sides: cones cylindric-oblong, 23^-4 

 inches long, with suborbicular scales, entire or slightly denticulate and un- 

 dulate at the margin. Himalayas: Bhutan and Sikkim. — Introduced about 

 1878 to Europe. Little known .in this country and probably not hardy north 

 of the Middle Atlantic States; at the Arnold Arboretum young plants did not 

 survive the first winter. A distinct and graceful spruce somewhat similar in 

 habit to P. Smithiana, but slenderer and thinner. 



25. PSEUDOLARIX, Gord. GOLDEN-LARCH 



Deciduous resinous tree with horizontally spreading whorled branches: 

 leaves linear, in dense clusters on short spurs, those of the young shoots 

 spirally arranged: flowers monoecious, staminate flowers catkin-like, slender- 

 stalked and clustered at the end of short spurs: cone short-stalked, pendent, 

 with ovate-lanceolate deciduous scales and with bracts about half as long 

 as the scales; each scale with 2 seeds with the wings nearly as long as the 

 scale; cotyledons 5-6. (Name derived from Greek -pseudos, false, and lariv; 

 the tree being similar to, but not a true larch.) — The only species is known 

 wild only from a restricted region in eastern China, where it grows in the 

 mountains at an altitude of about 3,000-4,000 feet. It is closely allied to 

 Larix, but differs in the stalked, pendulous, clustered, staminate flowers and 

 in the deciduous cone-scales, which separate from the axis at maturity, as 

 in the fir. 



P. amabilis, Rehd. {P. Kaempferi, Gord. P. Fortunei, Mayr. Pinus 

 Kaempferi, Pari., not Lamb. Larix Kaempferi, Fort., not Sarg. Laricopsis 

 Kaempferi, Kent). Fig. 77 and Plate XXXIX. Tree attaining 130 feet in 

 height; bark reddish-brown, fissured into small narrow scales: leaves linear, 

 acuminate, soft, light green, bluish-green beneath, 13^-3 inches long and 

 1-13^ lines broad: staminate flowers yellow, about 34 inch long, slender- 

 stalked; fertile flowers about ^ inch long: cone ovate, reddish-brown. 



